Angela Gehann-Dernbach

Angela Gehann-Dernbach (born February 21, 1958 in Bucharest , Romania ) is a German conductor , organist , singer ( soprano ) and music publisher .

Life

Angela Gehann-Dernbach, daughter of the composer, organist, conductor and music publisher Horst Gehann , first studied church music (A-examination) at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt with Edgar Krapp ( organ ) and Wolfgang Schäfer ( conducting ). She then passed the artistic maturity examination in conducting with Helmuth Rilling . From 1984 to 1993 she was a lecturer in church music at the Marienhöhe Theological Seminary in Darmstadt , and since then she has been a freelance artist.

She is a permanent guest conductor of various state philharmonics in Romania, has taught for several years as a visiting professor for choral conducting at the Minsk University of Music and as a lecturer at the Siena Choir Academy and from 1995 to 1999 she was artistic director of the Marienhöhe International Choir Competition, Darmstadt. She is also the chair of the International Society for German Romanticism.

Angela Gehann-Dernbach won prizes at international choir competitions with her choirs and took part in international festivals . She toured in twelve European countries and the USA. Among other things, she directs the Marienhöhe Darmstadt Chamber Choir, the Cantabile Vocal Ensemble Darmstadt, and since the end of 2006 also the Darmstadt Bach Choir and the Pro Musica chamber orchestra, with whom she performs the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach in the Bach works cycle. She has been running the Gehann Musik Verlag since 2007.

In 2010, Angela Gehann-Dernbach and a few like-minded people started the Morekids4music project, which, following the example of El Sistema in Venezuela, promotes the musical development of children through orchestral work at all levels.

Together with her daughter, the violinist Ariane Dernbach, born in 2000, she gave recitals for violin and piano in Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland and the USA.

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SURNAME	Gehann-Dernbach, Angela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German conductor, organist, singer and music publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	February 21, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bucharest , Romania